[mythtv-users] Delete files slowly

[Greg Oliver]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Daniel Kristjansson
<danielk at cuymedia.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 19:32 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
>> I just noticed that while I have the setting to delete files slowly,
>> and recording, it records faster than it deletes.
>> Is there logic in this setting, or can I assume that it will always
>> delete slower than 19mb/s (1 tuner)..
>
> long long TVRec::GetMaxBitrate(void) const
> {
>    long long bitrate;
>    if (genOpt.cardtype == "MPEG")
>        bitrate = 10080000LL; // use DVD max bit rate
>    if (genOpt.cardtype == "HDPVR")
>        bitrate = 20200000LL; // Peek bit rate for HD-PVR
>    else if (!CardUtil::IsEncoder(genOpt.cardtype))
>        bitrate = 19400000LL; // 1080i
>    else // frame grabber
>        bitrate = 10080000LL; // use DVD max bit rate, probably too big
>
>    return bitrate;
> }
>
> >From your "19mb/s" assumption I assume you have an ATSC card of
> some type? In that case 19400000 should be the contribution of
> that recorder to the deletion truncation rate. The deletion
> truncation rate is the total of all the max bitrate of all
> installed recorders.
>

Thanks!  Now I can plan accordingly..  It appears you already have  :)